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NFL: General Strategy for Making Trades

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The chain-of-command in Fantasy Football when it comes to trades typically looks like this: The closer your team is to a playoff berth, the more likely you'll want to trade two or three players for one stud. And the closer you are to the bottom of the standings, the more willing you might be to trade a stud for multiple players to fill holes in your lineup. After all, it will only be studs that good teams will want in trade, and the good teams will have the good players to give for those studs. It can work the other way depending on the owners involved in the trade, but the general idea is that to improve your lineup, you'll take more good players for one very good player. There's also the stud-for-stud deals that go down...

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